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Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
The small staff of six served nearly 1,000 patrons, while Braille services continued from Georgia. In 1975, the Florida Talking Book Library became the Florida Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. [4] At this time, the library also began to offer Braille services and serving patrons under the age of 18.
It wasn’t until the 1960s that what is today known as Tulsa City-County Library was born when, on November 14, 1961, an election was held in Tulsa County to approve “the expenditure of $3.8 million to construct a new Central Library and three branches, plus a 1.9-mill annual levy for funding the system.” Tulsa voters approved “a ...
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Allegra Westbrooks (Mar 16, 1921 – Apr 26, 2017) was a librarian in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the namesake for the Allegra Westbrooks Regional Library branch. [1] She first worked in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's segregated library branch, the Brevard Street Library for Negroes.
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Charlotte County is a U.S. county located in southwestern Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 186,847. [2] Its county seat is Punta Gorda. [3] Charlotte County comprises the Punta Gorda, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota Combined Statistical Area.
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